CHENNAI 2046! It is easy to call out the city’s vulnerabilities but Chennai is indeed steeped with strengths too. From its origins as a fishing hamlet to the megapolis that it is today, there is much to rediscover from its evolution and take forward into its future. Chennai has a rich heritage of water resources management. It has a diversified economy that is growing and adaptive to a global market. All this, while sustaining a multicultural space for its residents. Chennai’s challenge is really about balancing its issues and opportunities; learning from the gaps of past efforts and embracing a vision that systematically integrates an inclusive approach to the city’s growth strategy. Through our experience of living and working in Chennai, we were cognisant of the urgency to create a realistic and future proof resilience framework with short and long-term plans of action in alignment with the SDGs. Sometimes finding the right answer involves asking the right question. So we did.. Can we anchor the development of Chennai to the health & well-being of our citizens? What if we could integrate solutions to spatial, environmental, and economic challenges using HEALTH as a pivot? To pursue a participatory approach to the vision plan, it is imperative to anchor it to a theme that touches all scales of development from the individual to the region. Our approach for Chennai 2046 therefore pivots on HEALTH as a unifier and catalyst for a sustainable, inclusive and resilient vision. The approach further sought to work through 3 verticals for ensuring an urbanism model centred on health - 1. Healthy Environmental Stewardship, 2. Social well-being & healthy lifestyle, and 3. Economic resilience Each of these would be further detailed out to yield action plans to ensure a successful trajectory for implementation and impact. Postscript: Mid-2021, in response to an RFP from CMDA, we worked collaboratively with MVRDV, Deltares and Panteia to outline a vision for the third master plan for Chennai. Despite scoring highest on the technical assessment, we lost out on the financial assessment. This slide deck is assembled from UDC’s contribution to the visioning approach submitted as part of the technical proposal for the RFP. #healthyurbanism #livablecities #citiesforpeople
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Love the presentation style! Thanks for sharing!
Former Prof. Dr. Head Dept of Planning-Anna University Chennai (Govt of TN) Dean-SPA Vijayawada, Faculty-SPA Delhi, National Institute, Ministry of Education, Govt. of INDIA, Now live in Chennai City-do Academic Service
2moEnvisioning Chennai in 2046 the statements like "Pedestrians is king in the city" Is it? Do we have any city in India like this? Planning is India is Technology based neither is is PLACE and PEOPLE based. when Planning connect with PEOPLE in all levels and sectors things may change for good